Esther 7:4
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4 (A)For we have been sold, I and my people, (B)to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
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Esther 3:9
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9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents[a] of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”
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- Esther 3:9 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
Deuteronomy 28:68
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68 And the Lord (A)will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that (B)you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
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Esther 3:13
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13 Letters were sent (A)by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction (B)to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, (C)in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, (D)and to plunder their goods.
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Esther 8:11
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11 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city (A)to gather and defend their lives, (B)to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, (C)and to plunder their goods,
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Amos 2:6
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they sell the righteous for (C)silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
Joel 3:6
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6 You have sold (A)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
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Psalm 44:22-23
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22 Yet (A)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Esther 7:6
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6 And Esther said, (A)“A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
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Esther 4:7-8
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7 and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, (A)and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. 8 Mordecai also gave him (B)a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction,[a] that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him[b] on behalf of her people.
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- Esther 4:8 Or annihilation
- Esther 4:8 Hebrew and seek from before his face
Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (B)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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1 Samuel 22:23
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23 (A)Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”
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Joshua 9:23
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23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, (A)cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
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